'A power that works for development, peace and international understanding, in its own interest and in that of its friends and partners abroad. Asia is not Europe and our indigenous strategic cultures are strong and lasting'

The foreign secretary on President Zardari's desire to restart the Composite Dialogue and Obama's talk of constructive diplomacy: 'We want to see credible action against the infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan. We want to see the perpetrators bro

The Foreign Secretary directly names Pakistan's intelligence agency for Kabul embassy and Mumbai attacks. "Two months after the Mumbai attacks, and one month after we presented a dossier of evidence linking the attacks to elements in Pakistan, we sti

The foreign secretary talks tough: 'It is hard to believe that something of this scale that took so long in the preparation, and of this nature which amounts really to a commando attack, could occur without anybody anywhere in the establishment knowi

Nuclear apartheid? 'What President Bush and Prime Minister have done is essentially work for the liberation of India ... we look at this as the liberation Act of 2006 and 2007 for India's civil nuclear power effort'

India makes much of the joint declaration which says 'international civilian nuclear cooperation should be advanced through innovative and forward-looking approaches' taking it as a tacit Chinese OK when the India-US nuke deal comes to the NSG.

'What we say is that there are elements in Pakistan, and we do not qualify this, there are elements in Pakistan which have been involved in not just assisting but inciting terrorism in India. Who controls, how much control, that is not for us to say'